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τοῦ ‘Ayiou,! κατῆλθον εἰς τὴν Σελεύκειαν, ἐκεῖθέν τε ἀπέπλευσαν cis
τὴν Κύπρον.
5. Kal γενόµενοι ἐν Σαλαμῖνι, κατήγγελλον τὸν λόγον
1 εκπεµφ. υπο Tov Π., Par. has egressi ¢ sanctis = οι µεν ουν εξελθοντες απο των αγιων, Blass in B, and for απηλθον D has καταβαντες (so Blass and Hilg.).
was already an Apostle, and that his Apostleship was based not upon his appointment by man, or upon human teaching, but upon a revelation from God, and upon the fact that he had seen the Lord. It is certainly remarkable that both Barnabas and Saul are called Apostles by St. Luke in connection with this first missionary journey, and that under no other circumstance does he apply the term to either, xiv. 4, 14, and it is possible that the title may have been given here in a limited sense with refer- ence to their special mission ; see Hort, Ecclesia, pp. 28, 64, 65. But at the same time we must remember that in the N.T. the term ἀπόστολος is never applied to any one who may not very well have satisfied the primary qualification of Apostleship, viz., to have seen the Lord, and to bear witness to His Resur- rection, see Lightfoot, Galatians, p. 95 ff. (as against the recent statements of McGiffert, Apostolic Age, p. 653): “‘ We have no reason to suppose that this con- dition was ever waived, unless we throw forward the Teaching into the second century,’’ Gwatkin, ‘‘ Apostle,” Hastings’ B.D.: see further, Lightfoot, Philip- pians, p. 350, additional note on the Didaché. This we may accept, except in so far as it bears upon the Didaché, in which the Apostles (only mentioned in one passage, xi. 3-6) may be contrasted tather than compared with the Apostles of the N.T., inasmuch as they are repre- sented as wandering missionaries, itiner- ating from place to place, in days of corruption and gross imposture, and in- asmuch as the picture which the Didaché reveals is apparently characteristic of a corner of Church life rather than of the whole of it; Moberly, Ministerial Priest- hood, p. 176; Bright, Some Aspects of Primitive Church Life, p. 34, and the strictures of Bigg, Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, pp. 27, 40 ff. It may of course be urged that we know nothing of Bar- nabas and of the others, to whom Light- foot and Gwatkin refer as to their special call from Christ, whilst in the case of St. Paul we have his-own positive assertion. But even in his case the laying on of hands recognised, if it did not bestow, his Apostolic commission, and “(πε
ceremony of Ordination when it was not the channel of the grace was its recogni- tion,” Gore, µ. s., pp. 257-267, 383, 395, etc., and see especially the striking pas- sage in Moberly, Ministerial Priesthood, pp- 107, 108.
ef. 4. μὲν οὖν answered by δέ in ver. 5,S0 Weiss and Rendall, Appendix on μὲν οὖν, Ρ. 161. Page takes διελ. δέ in ver. 6 as the antithesis, see his note On il. 41.—éxwepd., cf. ver. 2; Only in N.T. in xvii. 10, cf. 2 Sam. xix. 31, where it denotes personal conduct. Mr. Ren- dall’s note takes the verb here also of the personal presence of the Holy Spirit conducting the Apostles on their way.— κατῆλθον: ‘went down,” R.V., of a journey from the interior to the coast, cf. xv. 30; Vulgate, abierunt, and so A.V. “departed,” which fails to give the full force of the word.—2ZeAevxeay: the port of Antioch, built by the first Seleucus, about sixteen miles from the city 6n the Orontes; Seleucia ad mare and ἡ ἐν Πιερία to dis- tinguish it from other places bearing the same name, see Wetstein for references to it. On its mention here and St. Luke’s custom see Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 70.— Κύπρον, cf. iv. 36. Although not expressly stated, we may well believe that the place was divinely intimated. But it was natural for more reasons than one that the missionaries should make for Cyprus. Barnabas was a Cypriote, and the near- ness of Cyprus to Syria and its productive copper mines had attracted a large settle- ment of Jews, cf. also xi. το, 20, and the Church at Antioch moreover owed its birth in part to the Cypriotes, xi. 29 (xxi. 16).